8. Two Stories Out of Oklahoma and Nebraska.
People: Jonas Jonas Huckabuck Mama Mama Huckabuck Pony Pony Huckabuck A Yellow Squash A Silver Buckle A Chinese Silver Slipper Buckle Pop Corn Yang Yang Hoo Hoo Their Mother The Shadow of the Goose The Left Foot of the Shadow of the Goose An Oklahoma Home
The Huckabuck Family and How They Raised Pop Corn in Nebraska and Quit and Came Back
Jonas Jonas Huckabuck was a farmer in Nebraska with a wife, Mama Mama Huckabuck, and a daughter, Pony Pony Huckabuck.
“Your father gave you two names the same in front,” people had said to him.
And he answered, “Yes, two names are easier to remember. If you call me by my first name Jonas and I don’t hear you then when you call me by my second name Jonas maybe I will.
“And,” he went on, “I call my pony-face girl Pony Pony because if she doesn’t hear me the first time she always does the second.”
And so they lived on a farm where they raised pop corn, these three, Jonas Jonas Huckabuck, his wife, Mama Mama Huckabuck, and their pony-face daughter, Pony Pony Huckabuck.